“Men take it for granted that their sexual organs can greatly increase in size and then become small again without being ruined. If obstetricians (and women) could understand that women’s genitals have similar abilities, episiotomy and laceration rates in North America might go down overnight.” … Read More →
Category Archives: Thoughts’n'such
Birthday Musings
Our wonderfully talented and witty friend and fellow blogger JennyMac shares my love of birthdays and all of the celebration and reflection that comes with making another trip around the sun. Inspired by her touchingly hilarious birthday post, I am writing a letter to my … Read More →
When Working Isn’t Working – Part II
So let’s say a single mom with 2 kids in DeKalb County finds one job that pays $11.00/hour and another job paying $7.50/hour. She has to work both jobs full-time. She has one child in elementary school and one child in daycare. She works 80 … Read More →
Friday Weekend
It’s difficult to really write anything that I feel would be worth saying, on topics such as the struggle in Iran, or any of the many other battles going on all over the world. And while we know things are getting considerably worse in Iran … Read More →
Glee
Our super talented friend Sean took the above photo. Woohoo! He takes lots of awesome pics. That’s why I like him. Oh, yeah, and he’s a super nice guy. Anyhow, I love how in every single picture of my walk down the aisle, I have … Read More →
25 Days
In 25 days, these two cuties are getting married! I’m super excited. I feel like we’ve planning and waiting and planning and waiting… and really, it’s flown by, but that’s cuz we’ve been so busy with other stuff. When I really think about it, it … Read More →
Children of the Streets
Slumdog Millionaire, the movie Mark mentioned below… it brought back a lot for me. A lot I had forgotten. About the children in India and Nepal. Not forgotten intellectually… no, images of ragged, dirt-caked children missing a foot or an eye do not easily leave … Read More →
Perfect Red King of Sulfur
Next year, I’m going to get a part time job. A few nights a week – the extra money will be useful and hopefully I can find something that’s not completely mindless (call center work) – of course, we’ll see right? Because it seems as … Read More →
Complete and Utter Randomness…
Things I’m thinking about on Tuesday: Rock cairns. From Sedona to Tibet. UFOs. As seen by many relatively sane people. Concepts of truth and power in discourse, according to Foucault… At this level it’s not so much a matter of knowing what external power imposes … Read More →
9/11
and the shock was subsonic and the smoke was deafening between the setup and the punch line cuz we were all on time for work that day we all boarded that plane for to fly and then while the fires were raging we all climbed … Read More →